This book explores family-school partnerships and how they can be most effectively leveraged to
ensure academic success for students from socioculturally diverse backgrounds. It presents an
innovative framework for building collaborative learning partnerships with culturally diverse
families for improved student achievement and more meaningful ties between schools and their
communities. It promotes understanding of familial and communal knowledge and recognizing
families' resilience in addressing academic social and linguistic barriers. Chapters
reimagine family-school partnerships within a context of shared power and authority examine a
spectrum of interventions that support culture-based modes of learning and emphasize the
potential for transformative learning to occur when students' out-of-school lives are
understood and meaningfully leveraged in school. Chapters also discuss how to foster bridges
between parents and teachers provide teachers with access to the rich cognitive and cultural
resources of families and enable all parties to begin viewing families as truly equal partners
in children's education. The book concludes with a commentary chapter that identifies necessary
areas for further research.Topics featured in this volume include:The contribution of racial
and ethnic socialization to family-school partnerships during early childhood.Fathers and their
role in family-school partnerships.The importance of Indigenous family engagement in systems of
education.Home-school partnerships and mixed-status immigrant families in the United
States.Family-school partnership research with the migrant and seasonal farm working
community.The role of humility in working with families across international
contexts.Interventions that promote home-to-school links.Ethnocultural Diversity and the
Home-to-School Link is a must-have resource for researchers professionals and graduate
students in education child and school psychology educational policy and politics family
studies developmental psychology sociology of education and anthropology.
